Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Faculty & Staff: Page 280

Faculty & Staff
The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life
The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]
Faculty & Staff
Venturing Into Computational Humanities
Venturing Into Computational HumanitiesNew field seeks to bring advanced computing to humanities, social science researchBy Ronald Roach It’s natural to expect that a significant degree of contemporary scientific discoveries stem from the application of high-performance computing and supercomputers to complex problems. Given that high-performance computing has exclusively been serving science for some time, a California-based […]
Faculty & Staff
Old South, New South Clash on Vanderbilt’s Campus
Old South, New South Clash on Vanderbilt’s CampusDecision to change building’s name lands university in legal battleBy David Hefner NASHVILLE, Tenn. Vanderbilt University is ensnarled in a legal battle over its decision to remove the word “Confederate” from a campus building that was partially built by descendants of the Confederate Army. Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee […]
Faculty & Staff
Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Black Pilgrimage to IslamBy Robert Dannin Photographs by Jolie Stahl Oxford University Press, 2002, 368 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-514734-0 The post-Sept. 11 political environment has given questions about Islam’s role and presence in America a vital urgency, and into that vacuum comes Robert Dannin’s work, a welcome and sweeping portrait of orthodox Islam in America. […]
Students
A Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month.
Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month. Alabama A&M University, NormalBlack History Month Theme: “The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections”17th Annual “Celebrating Black History Thru Jazz” Reception featuring Pianist/Composer Randy Weston; Benjamin Banneker Banquet; Poetry: Poet Joye Pettis, author of African-American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources. […]
Faculty & Staff
Keeping a Legacy from Crumbling
Keeping a Legacy from Crumbling WASHINGTONIn 2001, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the former home of the late Dr. Carter G. Woodson on its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States — an ironic fate for a place connected to the man who ranks as perhaps the greatest […]
Faculty & Staff
IBM Expands Higher Education Research Program
IBM Expands Higher Education Research ProgramBy Ronald Roach ARMONK, N.Y.IBM announced in December that it is working to speed cancer research and explore advanced technical applications in “e-education,” medicine, bioinformatics and human behavior through partnerships with more than 130 of the world’s leading universities — all part of its expanded, $36 million global university award […]
Faculty & Staff
Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora
Spelman College To Address HIV/AIDS In African Diaspora With a series of international conferences and new health courses planned, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges is poised to tackle one of the most urgent issues facing women in the African Diaspora — the spread of HIV/AIDS. Spelman College will kick off the first […]
Faculty & Staff
UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program
UConn Seeks Improved Diversity Training Program STORRS, Conn.The University of Connecticut is teaching more than 3,000 staff members to think before they speak. Dr. Carlian Dawson, director of diversity education, said a planned diversity training program will not tell campus employees what to think, but to consider the impact of what they say.“We want people […]
d2_001
Faculty & Staff
UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone
UNC Professors Seek Memorial to Honor Late Sen. Wellstone CHAPEL HILL, N.C.A professor and a dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking a memorial on campus to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, a two-time Carolina alumnus who died in a plane crash Oct. 25. Dr. Joel Schwartz, an adjunct professor […]
Faculty & Staff
Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership
Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership By Dr. S. Keith Hargrove There are many challenges confronting higher education in the 21st century. These challenges range from cyclical state and federal support, legislative oversight and accountability to a changing student population and the need for more effective leadership in academia. One key to addressing these and many […]
Students
English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available Positions
English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsBy Kendra Hamilton There were probably plenty of long faces at the annual convention for professors of English and foreign languages last month, as new data indicated the current crop of job seekers would face the toughest job market since the recession of the early […]
Previous Page
Page 280 of 298
Next Page
Find A JobPost A Job
Featured Jobs
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Premium Employers
The trusted source for all job seekers
We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions.
Read More
The trusted source for all job seekers